Narendra Modi has been the Prime Minister of India since 2014. He is a Lok Sabha member from the Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 282 and 303 seats in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha Elections under the leadership of Narendra Modi. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, PM Modi won the Varanasi seat with a margin of 4,79,505 votes. He was polled 6,74,664 votes and defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Shalini Yadav who got 1,95,159 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Modi contested on BJP ticket from the constituency for the first time and won the seat. He was polled 5,81,022 votes and defeated Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Arvind Kejriwal who got 2,09,238 votes. Modi defeated Kejriwal by a margin of 3,71,784 votes. Modi also won the Vadodara seat in 2014 but decided to retain Varanasi. He was the Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. Modi represented Rajkot II constituency in the Gujarat Assembly in 2002 and Maninagar thrice in a row in 2002, 2007 and 2012. He is again contesting from the Varanasi constituency in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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PM Modi said that the government is taking steps to make the financial services sector vibrant, proactive and strong.
Athletes from 27 states and Union Territories are competing in the Games which will conclude on March 2.
The government is transforming the entire medical education and healthcare sector and the National Medical Commission would bring great transparency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 33rd convocation of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University on February 26, 2021 at 11 am via video-conferencing.
World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has thanked PM Modi for supporting vaccine equity, amid the pandemic.
Puducherry Education Department has declared a holiday in all private and government schools in view of traffic diversions made for PM Narendra Modi's visit tomorrow in the Union Territory.
Amid a controversy over a cricket stadium in Gujarat being renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government on Wednesday said the name change involves only the Motera stadium and the sports complex where it is located will continue to be named after Sardar Patel.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked Gujarat after BJP registered a massive victory in the municipal corporation election. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said results clearly show unwavering faith people have towards politics of development and good governance.
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This would be PM Narendra Modi's second visit to Puducherry since February 2018 when he participated in the golden jubilee celebrations of Auroville International township.
In an unusual move, Pakistan on Thursday supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five proposals on making South Asia a Covid-19 free region.
When it comes to leading the party, the Congress conundrum is more profound than what it appears. Officially, Sonia Gandhi is heading the organisation, but unofficially Rahul Gandhi is in charge of the party.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum (NTLF) on Wednesday via video-conferencing.
PM Narendra Modi said that the NDA government is trying to rectify mistakes of previous governments which unfortunately did not honour deserving warriors, leaders and freedom fighters.
The Prime Minister arrived in the Tamil Nadu capital earlier on Sunday morning and handed over the indigenously developed Arjun Main Battle Tank (Mark 1A) tanks to Army Chief General M.M. Naravane.
In his telephonic talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commended the Indian government's efforts to choose the path of dialogue in dealing with the farmer protests and described it as "befitting in democracy", the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tamil Nadu and Kerala on February 14 and lay the foundation stone of multiple projects. One of the key highlights of PM Modi's visit is going to be the handing over of the Arjun Main Battle Tank (MK-1A) to the Indian Army, at Chennai. The tank has been indigenously developed in India.
In a welcome development for those availing family pensions, the Centre has raised the upper ceiling from Rs 45,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per month, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced on Friday.
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